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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Why am I getting the sense that Angela Merkel made an enormous mess of Germany in the energy sector in so many different ways?

    From sucking on the kremlin’s pipeline, lowering Germany’s guard to corrupt and corrupting russian influence, to negotiating the short end of Beijing’s stick on renewables as stated in this article, I get this nagging sense of tepid myopia, of giving free reign to immediate corporate appetites and impulses, as if tomorrow wasn’t coming soon to cash its’ checks.

    The more time passes, the more corrosively mediocre her legacy seems to become.

    See here… corporations don’t know what is best for them in five years, ten years, all they always care about is “Gimme more more MORE MORE…! Gimme now now NOW NOW…!”, they have to be monitored and guided like impulsive children that might drink the goddamned bleach under the kitchen sink, they might start playing with matches and burn the whole goddamned house down.




  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.orgToo many tourists?
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    4 months ago

    It was an early December when I visited Venice, locals say it snows one day a year and I just happened to be there!

    During peak summer season, I imagine by the turn of August any and all locals have had it up to HERE with the dense throngs of tourists and the logistics/infrastructure overload it all involves.

    But during the low season, you get to see the local inhabitants come out with their guard down, relaxed and welcoming. Then somehow or other, I ended up at a party of university students from nearby Padua, they had rented a party hall behind a bar. They made me feel like an ambassador from another corner of the world, but also like one of their own.

    Plus since the water is as cold as it gets in the year, it doesn’t smell, like they say it does when it’s hot and humid.